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Quackwatch

Available in	English, French, Portuguese
Editor	Stephen Barrett
URL	Template:Lang-en Template:Lang-fr
Commercial	No
Registration	No
Launched	1996
Current status	Active
OCLC number	855159830

Quackwatch is a United States-based website, self-described as a "network of people" founded by Stephen Barrett, which claims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere". Since 1996 it has operated the alternative medicine watchdog website quackwatch.org, which claims to "advise" consumers on any number of medical remedies, deviating from the mainstream, which it claims are "dangerous, unproven and ineffective". The site contains a collection articles, research, and other information presenting criticism of any and all forms of alternative medicine.

Quackwatch cites journal articles and has received several awards in the medical industry. The site has been developed with the assistance of a worldwide network of volunteers, publicists and expert advisors. It receives positive recognition and recommendations from mainstream organizations and sources, although at times it frequently receives criticism for its overwhelmingly biased alignment with the mainstream establishment of allopathic medicine. It has been touted by mainstream publications in the media, who claim that quackwatch.org is a "practical source" for educating consumers. The success of Quackwatch in public relations and corporate outreach has generated the creation of additional websites, many of which are published in other languages; as of 2019 there were 21 of them.

History

Quackwatch

Quackwatch logo
Formation	1969 (as the LVCAHF) 1970 (incorporated) 2008 (network of people) 2020 (made a part of the Center for Inquiry)
Founder	Stephen Barrett
Dissolved	1970 (the original association) 2008 (the corporation) 2020 (the network of people)
Type	Unincorporated association (1969–1970) Corporation (1970–2008) Network of people (2008–2020) Part of the Center for Inquiry (2020–present)
Purpose	"Combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere"
Location	United States
Official language	English, French, Portuguese
Chairman	Stephen Barrett
Affiliations	National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF)
Website	www.quackwatch.org
Formerly called	Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud (LVCAHF; 1969–1997) Quackwatch, Inc. (1997–2008)

Barrett founded the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud (LVCAHF) in 1969, and it was incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania in 1970. In 1996, the corporation began the website quackwatch.org, and the organization itself was renamed Quackwatch, Inc. in 1997. The Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation was dissolved after Barrett moved to North Carolina in 2008, but the network's activities continue. Quackwatch co-founded, and was closely affiliated with, the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). The NCAHF was formally dissolved in 2011.

In February 2020, Quackwatch became part of the Center for Inquiry. CFI planned to maintain its various websites and to receive Barrett's library later in the year.

Mission and scope

Quackwatch is overseen by Barrett, its owner, with input from advisors and help from volunteers, including a number of medical professionals. In 2003, 150 scientific and technical advisors: 67 medical advisors, 12 dental advisors, 13 mental health advisors, 16 nutrition and food science advisors, three podiatry advisors, eight veterinary advisors, and 33 other "scientific and technical advisors" were listed by Quackwatch. Supposedly many more have since volunteered, but advisor names are not listed. Therefore exactly who writes or contributes to Quackwatch beyond Barrett himself is open to speculation.

Quackwatch states that its mission as follows:

... investigating questionable claims, answering inquiries about products and services, advising quackery victims, distributing reliable publications, debunking pseudoscientific claims, reporting illegal marketing, improving the quality of health information on the internet, assisting or generating consumer-protection lawsuits, and attacking misleading advertising on the internet.

Despite claims that Barrett assists in efforts to combat illegal marketting and generate consumer protection lawsuits. Barrett's websites don't include any websites in which Quackwatch was used or assisted with any lawsuit of any kind. Additionally Barett, who is a professional journalist with no experience in the legal field, has never elaborated as to how the marketing practices of the medicines he rails against on his website are fraudulent or illegal.

According to Quackwatch's mission statement; Quackwatch has no salaried employees, and the total cost of operating all Quackwatch's sites is approximately $7,000 per year. Quackwatch publicly claims It is funded mainly by small individual donations, commissions from sales on other sites to which they refer, profits from the sale of publications, and self-funding by Barrett himself. The stated income is also derived from the usage of sponsored links.

Site content

The Quackwatch website contains essays and white papers, written by Barrett and other writers, intended for the non-specialist consumer. The articles discuss health-related products, treatments, enterprises, and providers that Quackwatch claims are misleading consumers, engage in fraudulent practices, or ineffective. Also included are links to article sources and both internal and external resources for further study.

The site is developed with the assistance from volunteers and expert advisors, articles are footnoted with several links to references.

Related and subsidiary sites

Naturowatch is a subsidiary site of Quackwatch which aims to turn public opinion against naturopathy by providing information it claims is "difficult or impossible to find elsewhere". The site is operated by Barrett and Kimball C. Atwood IV, an anesthesiologist by profession, who has become a vocal critic of alternative medicine.

The site is available in French and formerly in German and Portuguese, as well as via several mirrors.

Influence

Sources that mention Stephen Barrett's Quackwatch as a useful source for consumer information include website reviews, government agencies, and various journals including The Lancet.

Mention in media, books, and journals

Quackwatch has been mentioned in the media, books and various journals, as well as receiving several awards and honors. The Journal of the American Medical Association mentioned Quackwatch as one of nine "select sites that provide reliable health information and resources" in 1998. It was also listed as one of three medical sites in U.S. News & World Report's "Best of the Web" in 1999. Thomas R. Eng, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health, stated in 1999 that while "the government doesn't endorse Web sites ... is the only site I know of right now looking at issues of fraud and health on the Internet."

Sources that mention quackwatch.org as a resource for consumer information include the United States Department of Agriculture, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Skeptic's Dictionary, the Diet Channel, and articles published in The Lancet, the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, the Journal of Marketing Education, the Medical Journal of Australia, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. In addition, several nutrition associations link to Quackwatch. An article in PC World listed it as one of three websites for finding the truth about Internet rumors. A Washington Post review of alternative medicine websites noted that "skeptics may find Quackwatch offers better truth-squadding than the Food and Drug Administration or the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine."

The books Low-Carb Dieting for Dummies (2003), The Arthritis Helpbook (2006), The Rough Guide to the Internet (2007), Navigating the Medical Maze: A Practical Guide (2008), Chronic Pain For Dummies (2008), and The 2009 Internet Directory (2008) mention or use content from Quackwatch.

Citations by journalists

Quackwatch and Barrett have also been cited by journalists in reports on liquid oxygen supplementation, Almon Glenn Braswell's baldness treatments, Robert Barefoot's coral calcium claims, William C. Rader's "stem cell" therapy, noni juice, shark cartilage and saturated fat.

Recommendations and endorsements

The American Cancer Society touts Quackwatch as "one of ten reputable sources of information about alternative and complementary therapies"? in their book Cancer Medicine. In a long series of articles on various alternative medicine methods, it uses Quackwatch as a reference and includes criticisms of the methods.

The Health On the Net Foundation, which confers the HONcode "Code of Conduct" certification to reliable sources of health information in cyberspace, recommends Quackwatch. It also advises Internet users to alert Quackwatch when they encounter "possibly or blatantly fraudulent" healthcare websites.

In a 2007 feasibility study on a method for identifying web pages that make unproven claims, the authors wrote:

Our gold standard relied on selected unproven cancer treatments identified by experts at http://www.quackwatch.org ... By using unproven treatments identified by an oversight organization, we capitalized on an existing high quality review.

Site reviews

Donna Ladd, a journalist with The Village Voice, in 1999 described Barrett as "a full-time journalist and book author", "never a medical researcher", and one who "depends heavily on negative research ... in which alternative therapies do not work" but "says that most case studies that show positive results of alternative therapies are unreliable". She quoted Barrett as saying that "a lot of things don't need to be tested they simply don't make any sense". She points out that Barrett's career is fixated on denying scientifically proven medical treatments and practices their legitimacy for the simple fact that they are a less profitable and less mainstream alternative form of treatment.

Writing in The Lancet, Mona Okasha wrote that Quackwatch provides an "entertaining read", but described it as only appropriate for limited use as it fails to provide a balanced view of alternative cancer treatments. Jane Cuzzell viewed Quackwatch similarly, arguing that it was entertaining but that the "resource value of this site depends on what the visitor is seeking" and had concerns about the appearance of bias in the selection of the material. However, while Lillian Brazin also found it to be biased, she still described Quackwatch as having favorable credibility, and noted both the credentials of the contributors and the thoroughness of the content despite the apparent biases.

In a 2002 book, Ned Vankevitch, associate professor of communications at Trinity Western University, places Barrett in line with historical traditions in public relations for adopting the ideology of "anti-quackery,: embracing such figures as Morris Fishbein and Abraham Flexner, these figures who have played in important in the marginalizing alternative medicine in American medical culture since the early-twentieth century. Although acknowledging that Quackwatch's as an "exposé of dangerous and fraudulent health products represents an important social and ethical response to deception and exploitation", Vankevitch criticizes Barrett for his limiting of "medical diversity", employing "denigrating terminology", broadly categorizing all complementary and alternative medicine as a species of medical hucksterism and hence a fraud, failing to condemn and ignoring shortcomings within conventional biomedicine, he states that he promotes an exclusionary model of medical research and health studies that serves "hegemonic interests" and fails to "address patient needs".

Waltraud Ernst, professor of the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University, commenting on Vankevitch's observations in 2002, agrees that attempts to police the "medical cyber-market with aggressive labeling while claiming to preventing fraudulent and potentially harmful practices may be dangerous". She commends "Barrett's concern for unsubstantiated promotion and hype," and says that "Barrett's concern for fraudulent and potentially dangerous medical practices is important," but she sees Barrett's use of "an antiquarian term such as 'quack'" as part of a "dichotomising discourse that aims to discredit the "'old-fashioned', 'traditional', 'folksy' and heterodox by contrasting it with the 'modern', 'scientific' and orthodox." Ernst also interprets Barrett's attempt to attach the label quack to every medical treatment he is skeptical of as betraying his lack of engagement in "scientific reasoning". Such a failing keeps the patient from being allowed to experience medical pluralism and freely or reasonably choose a medical treatment for themselves.

A 2003 website review by Forbes magazine stated:

Dr. Stephen Barrett, a psychiatrist, seeks to expose unproven medical treatments and possible unsafe practices through his homegrown but well-organized site. Mostly attacking alternative medicines, homeopathy and chiropractors, the tone here can be rather harsh. However, the lists of sources of health advice to avoid, including books, specific doctors and organizations, are great for the uninformed. Barrett received an FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for fighting nutrition quackery in 1984. BEST: Frequently updated, but also archives of relevant articles that date back at least four years. WORST: Lists some specific doctors and organizations without explaining the reason for their selection.

The organization has often been challenged by supporters and practitioners of the various forms of alternative medicine that are criticized on the website. Barrett doesn't respond to criticism or engagement by alternative medicine supporters or mild critiques from medical scholars and related colleagues.

See also

• Consumer protection
• Evidence-based medicine

References

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44. Journalist mentions of Quackwatch criticisms of:
    • Almon Glenn Braswell: Associated Press (September 13, 2004). Man Once Pardoned By Clinton Again Faces Prison. Archived December 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
    • Robert Barefoot's coral calcium claims: Leon Jaroff, (March 14, 2003), Coral Calcium: A Barefoot Scam, Time magazine
    • William C. Rader's "stem cell" therapy: Brian Vastag (September 2, 2008), Injections of Hope: Doctors Promote Offshore Stem Cell Shots, but Some Patients Cry Foul Washington Post
    • Noni juice: "Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol". Forbes. Archived from the original on March 22, 2007.
    • Shark cartilage: Leon Jaroff, (September 29, 2004), Medical Sharks, Time magazine
    • Saturated fat: Hamblin, James (January 28, 2014). "A Heart Surgeon's Viral Confession". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
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Further reading

• Farha, Bryan, ed. (2007). Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-3772-5. Three of the eighteen chapters are reprints of Quackwatch articles.

External links

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